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at large onglit to Le deeply impressed with tlie consideration 

 that the election of a judge rises in importance far above any 

 political office, and to exercise in all cases their own impartial 

 judgments, nnintluenced by mere party considerations. 



"Nov. 20, 1829 — The profession and the country have sus- 

 tained a heavy loss in the death of Judge Washington, who died 

 about two o'clock this afternoon at the Mansion House hotel in 

 this city. He has been for many years an able and upright pub- 

 lic functionar3\ Of late his usefulness has been somewhat 

 diminished b}^ frequent illness, and by his devotion to his Avife, 

 whose mind had become somewhat affected, and she had with- 

 drawn from all intercourse with society, and given to and re- 

 ceived from her husband mutual and unbounded attention. The 

 keenness of her feelings for his loss permitted her to survive him 

 but eight-and-forty hours ; for on Saturday, the 2Sth inst., having 

 commenced a journey to Mount Vernon, she suddenl}- died about 

 six miles from town, either actually in the carriage, or before 

 she could be convej-ed to a hotise." 



These memoranda were no doubt written without the most 

 remote idea that they would ever meet the iniblic eye. I will add 

 here, as pertinent, the remarks which, many years afterwards 

 (Feb. 12, 1836), he made in the hall of the House of Representa- 

 tives of the United States, upon a resolution ottered by him to 

 have a marble bust of Chief Justice Marshall placed in the room 

 of the Supreme Court at "Washington. 



" I am not about to pronounce an eulogium on the character of 

 John ]Marshall. His merits are already recorded in the breasts 

 and judgments of his countrymen. A recollection of them will 

 be cherished as long as a just estimate can be formed of brilliant 

 talents and unspotted integrit}', as long as gratitude shall con- 

 tinue to be a virtue. Few men since the formation of the govern- 

 ment, have served it so well, and none so faithfull3^ In the ad- 

 ministration of the laws, under a government of laws, he was for 

 nearly five-and-thirt}'^ years, supreme in station, in abilities, and 

 in usefulness. It has been the peculiar fortune of this republic, 

 that it has found, on different occasions, when it has called its 

 eminent citizens to posts of public dut}^, a happ3' fitness in the 

 individual to his station; a devotion of purpose in the man, and 

 a confidence in his designs on the part of the people : a union and 

 an aptitude from which nothing but lasting benefits can arise. 



